The Kate Bush Story

BBC Documentary from 2014   10-Sep-26

Here we have 'The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill' from the BBC, produced back in 2014 - Exploring her music from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow. The film features testimony of some of her key collaborators and those she has inspired, including Dave Gilmour, Peter Gabriel, Elton John and many others. We've also covered Kate Bush: The Samplers and Sequencers, if you want to know more about the tech. The film is not currently available on the BBC iPlayer, so it's good to see it on Youtube.

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Documentary exploring Kate Bush's career and music, from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of some of her key collaborators and those she has inspired.

Contributors include the guitarist who discovered her (Pink Floyd's David Gilmour), the choreographer who taught her to dance (Lindsay Kemp) and the musician who she said 'opened her doors' (Peter Gabriel), as well as her engineer and ex-partner (Del Palmer) and several other collaborators (Elton John, Stephen Fry and Nigel Kennedy).

Also exploring their abiding fascination with Kate are fans (John Lydon, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui) and musicians who have been influenced by her (St Vincent's Annie Clark, Natasha Khan (aka Bat for Lashes), Tori Amos, Outkast's Big Boi, Guy Garvey and Tricky), as well as writers and comedians who admire her (Jo Brand, Steve Coogan and Neil Gaiman).

More from the BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dzswb